We’re off on a ride to Nashville Tennessee this weekend. Nashville is a little over 300 miles from here. Riding time is 5–6 hours in good weather. We might miss the rain going down there, but I think we’re going to get wet coming home tomorrow.
Open Mic Saturday.
Talk about whatever you want today.
have a nice time Jonco
Nashville is a great city, there’s a lot to do there. Good restaurants, if you’re adventurous, head east of the river and go to the Five Points part of town. Cool galleries, coffee shops, and restaurants. Have fun!
Now on to more serious stuff: what to us lefties and wrongies want to argue about today? ;-?
Have a safe and fun trip, Jonco. Good morning all. It is a beautiful day in the north, sunshine and heat. Loving it.
Well, that was embarrassing. I didn’t look at when Jonco posted this. I live in a Nashville suburb. I was just getting gas when I saw a Merc pulling out with a guy with a cap, sunglasses, and scraggly beard. Wouldn’t have thought anything about it because I was sure Jon would ride his bike, but BAM…Missouri tags!…let’s see…St. Louis is in Mo. So, he punched it going out and dang it…I did too. Drove past my house and pulled up beside him at a light and hollered JONCO!…ummm…Nooooo….Oh…well, sorry.
LOL Revy, maybe he has a twin?
Good try Rev! Close but no cigar heh?
rev,
as a nashvillian, what’s your take on my Five Points suggestion?
or is it nashvillite? nahsviller? nashvilleno? nashviller?
Hard to say, Paul. Although I’ve lived in the Nashville ‘area’ for about 10 years, I’ve only lived near Five Points for about 3 months. More of my time is spent around Murfreesboro and other smaller towns where there are Jazz Festivals (in Watertown this weekend), Dave Macon Days (M’boro), Slammin’ Jammin’ (Memorial Day Weekend, Lebanon) and frequent Classic Car shows.
I can see almost all of Nashville (yet none of Russia) from my office in the middle of Nashville and realized one day that there was very little I’d actually seen within 5 miles of downtown except via a random drive. Right now, I live in what my wife calls a Little UN. It’s an extremely diverse neighborhood with every hyphenated citizen (and non-citizen, but I guess that’s hyphenated as well) you can imagine. As a matter of fact, if I’m walking around, folks look at me like “what’s the neighborhood coming to?”, but it’s pretty neat. I love Nashville and it’s really not what folks think it is. Well, unless you think there are a lot of rednecks around that should have “Shoot, I kin do that” or “Lester, watch this!” engraved on their headstones, then it’s exactly what you think.
I think it’s supposed to be a nashvillian but I don’t know. In our current cultural venue of ethic awareness, maybe it’s nashvillian-american, although I guess a generic redneck-american or southern-american works.
Rev,
When I used to travel there for business I generally stayed in the West End area, near Vandy. My distributor was out that way, and there seemed to be more stores and restaurants (I sell wine) in that part of town. When we did venture to the east side, and I found it more appealing because of the diversity. I learned to enjoy that diversity when I moved to Miami in 1990, where the ethnic mix was about 50% Latino, 30 % African American, and 20% white (of which most seemed to be Jewish people from New York). Boca? About an hour north of Miami and worlds apart. Most people here really think their sh*t doesn’t stink. Trust me, it does! The best way to describe single women in who live in Boca is that they are so stuck up, when they’re outside in the rain, they drown.
Yeah, I like the West End. I was in the IT side of Healthcare for a while and our offices were out that way. I moved to Murfreesboro when I worked for Middle Tn State Univ (MTSU) and I really like a college town. After I started downtown Nashville, I got tired of driving 45 mi to work and we moved up here. Renting until we decide exactly where we want to land because my office will be moving within a year or so. I’m relatively close to the airport (as the crow flies) and my house faces a main drag here. The back yard is 5 wooded acres, the front yard is on a major 4 lane with apartments, ethnic groceries, strip malls, etc. But, for a ‘people-watcher’, it’s quite a bit of fun.
Rev,
Thanks for the nice conversation, heading to do an in-store wine tasting. Looking forward to returning later in the day to see what’s got a bee in the bonnet of the wrongies!
Maybe I can shake it up, Paul.
Hey, how about raising taxes for the rich to support poorly researched programs and then we’ll decide what ‘rich’ is at random points. $250K too much? How about 200K? Maybe we can drop it to $75K. Maybe we should fund a study to determine the relationship between who votes for us and salary so we can see where we can raise taxes without negatively impacting our constituency. Make too much? Well, too bad, it’s patriotic to give more money because you receive more benefits from the gov’t…well…not actually more benefits from the gov’t because you’re not getting more…but more from our capitalistic system because you’ve worked hard, taken risks, and you owe it all to the gov’t because they recognize the fact that the gov’t shouldn’t try to control the market…
OK, folks, Have Fun.
rev,
Did we scare everyone away? From what I have seen, this appears to be the shortest open mic ever. Jonco, next time this happens, it looks like you must pick a ring leader.
KLAW, if you happen to cross this conversation, let me say to you again: Radio Paradise, the best internet site ever.
P n B
Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. I thought maybe folks had taken our conversation as something worth discussing face to face rather than anonymously on-line and were out interacting with their families and such. Well, gotta go. I’m heading out to pick up an Ethiopian baby.
Sorry I haven’t chimed in yet Paul. I gues I just don’t have any conservative bees in my bonnet today! I’ll try to come up with something to get your blood pumping later, but I’m in a mellow mood right now enjoying my Las Vegas 104 degree weather (but it’s a “dry” heat!). Sorry, I don’t know much about Nashville. I haven’t been there since 1972. I would love to go just for the barbecue alone though (even though Memphis is where it’s really at for barbecue). Enjoy your Saturday.
Helllloooo, anybody out there?
Jonco, it angers me when people bring your spelling errors to your attention. You allowed me to buy an “o” the other day. Please accept this “h”, on the house.
Bella, this place has an echo.
How much does it cost to buy a letter? I may have to buy a few later?
Talking about a small world,Paul&Rev,West End Discount Liquors and Wines, is where I get my ‘likker’.
You are a frequent flyer, free for you.
Yes, it is a small world.
Company is all packed up and moved to another place. Guess they didn’t like the option that I gave them KLAW. Paint brush or brush off. Hi, Tehobu, you’re right, it is a small world.
There went the green flag. Come on Dale!!
Oh, he died didn’t he?
Glad to see you gave them the bum’s rush.
Man it’s hot up here for us palefaces. Almost 30C and cooking. I’m wilting.
Rev, what I’m going to take from this OM is that on an early lazy summer Saturday, serious thought should be sent somewhere.
(Another) Scott, the challenge is on. Memphis BBQ, dry rub: yech. Even at Central BBQ on Summer Avenue, I say: yech. To paraphrase Pink Floyd: How can you have BBQ if you don’t eat your sauce?
On another BBQ topic, eastern North Carolina: they put pulled pork on a bun, with coleslaw on top (and the pork is vinegar based, not tomato): if you call that BBQ you should be sent to a special place in Hades, because if pork and vinegar is BBQ, then Memphis dry rub is actually good!
For that squalid portion of the population that believes in the quality of eastern NC BBQ, if that is BBQ!, then I have the dancing ablity of Billy Mays; the sales skills of Steve McNair; the nose of David Carradine; the ability to sell Budweiser of Karl Malden; the quarterbacking ability of Michael Jackson; the breasts of Ed McMahon; the kung-fu ability of Farah Fawcett. Plus, when I was Fred Travelina, I was a co star in a short lived comedy with Ryan O’Neal. Does any of that make sense? Is any of that true?
I’ve been drinkin and I kinda followed that PinB. That’s scarey!
Yes he is dead, why did you bring that up?
Tehobu,
I sold a good amount of wine to West End during the first 8 years of this century.
P n B, obviously you have not tasted STL bbq.
Paul,they put the vinegar in to help keep the flys off. It will set in the sun all day before the worms start showing.
KLAW, you’re right I haven’t. But my impression of St. L is probably not the best: I went to SIU in Carbondale, and one day we went to St. L for a Cubs game. The drive through East St. L was less than impressive, but what was really amazing was seeing cats sleeping in the streets of downtown St. L on a Saturday afternoon.
Tehobu. Every time I read your succinct description, I laugh my ass off. Thanks to you!
Me=redneck
redneck=nascar
Nascar= Dale
not but one Dale and he is dead
setting here with beer in hand, don’t ask me to explain any farther
I won a bottle of wine from a friend in New Zealand on a bet. I presented it to Antje Duvecot at a house concert in Alaska. She digs wine. I’m quite sure you know who she is.
So you can’t explain Dale vs Dale Jr? One is the spawn of the other, I think? I wonder why all NASCAR fans aren’t liberals, since most of NASCAR races involve stepping on the gas and turning left?
I’m having a sip with you Tehobu, cheers. Life is good!
P n B, GIVE IT A REST.
KLAW, is your Antje question directed at me? If so, I don’t have a clue. I’d be interested to know about the NZ wine, however, since I have had the pleasure of visiting that country twice.
I’m always going left but it has nothing to do with old age, I have bad, bad vertigo. LOL.
Give what a rest?
Another Scott,
If you proceed down I-70 east to approach Memph/Nash, stop in Kansas City, Mo. for BBQ. You’ll forget they have what they call bbq in Tennessee.
I’m not a NASCAR fan.The remote is to far from the PC or I would change the channel. I’ll have to get up to go to the john in a while. Then I can see what else on.
I have to go, bye.
Bye KLAW.
Bella, now we are drinking buddies,just call me Ted.
and trippin to nashville?( one-handed type, nnnnnnot puttin THIS down–), my older bro is headin there this wkend,2, frm kc to meet an old flame from h.s. 44 years ago, who lives in atlanta (dont know #,infi) halfway. remet via cmates.com, otherwise uselessIMO
You betcha, Ted. JohnC, I’m trying to deciffer…your brother met and old flame and trying to hook up again???
an old flame that is